----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: Pdf utilities and fonts, an off topic jot
On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:03, Stephen Harris wrote:
Probably you thought that I was going to lead up to something
profoundly philosphical ...
...when actually it seems all you want to do is spam us. Thanks a bunch.
Ok, you are not stupid. I've looked at your website and documentation.
I see you are quite concerned with spam from your program tools. I
intended my post to be educational. Knuth wrote TeX, is probably
the number one computer scientist in the world. And his books on
the Art of Programming are the bibles. His first or second book is
about Algorithms, the heart of programming which is the basis of TeX,
and LyX is the frontend for TeX. How much can a program do is a
Hofstadter challenge. It is relevant to requests for grammar checkers.
Obviously, this had no theoretical appeal to you. My first interest
is writing and with free cross-platform tools for writing, second,
fixing computer problems for customers (and I've been of some
help in giving Windows advice on this forum) while my program
authoring interest doesn't go much past novice regular expressions
and simple scripts. I like astronomy and know about how close
Mars is now and that what may be determined as the tenth planet
has a moon. So I like the Stellarium concept and the remdup tool.
Also gipfel, http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/#gipfel
So I appreciated you enough to retract my snide comments. I've
downloaded Stellarium and your LyX documentation so you will be
tested. Then also, I now need to write a grocery list before shopping.
So, I am older, stupider, and unfortunately not much wiser tambien.
A vote for Persephone,
Stephen
